The Definitive Collection (Blues Brothers)

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The Definitive Collection
Compilation album by The Blues Brothers
Released 1992
Genre Blues, blues-rock, blue-eyed soul
Label Atlantic Records
Professional reviews
The Blues Brothers chronology
Red, White & Blues
(1992)		 The Definitive Collection (Blues Brothers) The Very Best Of The Blues Brothers
(1995)

Blues Brothers: The Definitive Collection is a compilation album of songs by The Blues Brothers, released in 1992 by Atlantic Records. All twenty of the tracks from the album had been originally released by Atlantic between 1978 and 1981 as part of various Blues Brothers singles and albums.

It includes several of the band's singles:[1]

  • Soul Man (Atlantic 3545, released November 21, 1978)
  • Rubber Biscuit (Atlantic 3564, released February 16, 1979)
  • Hey Bartender/(I Got Everything I Need) Almost (Atlantic 3576, released May 3, 1979)
  • Everyboy Needs Somebody to Love/Sweet Home Chicago (Atlantic 3758, released July 31, 1980)
  • Who's Making Love (Atlantic 3785, released on December 3, 1980)
  • From the Bottom/Going back to Miami (Atlantic 3802, released on February 4, 1981)
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[edit] Track listing

The first seventeen of the tracks were recorded live at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles; the remaining three were recorded at Universal Recording in Chicago[1]

  1. "Opening: I Can't Turn You Loose" (Redding)
  2. "Hey Bartender" (Dixon)
  3. "Messin' With The Kid" (London)
  4. "(I Got Everything I Need) Almost" (Walsh)
  5. "Rubber Biscuit" (Johnson, Levy)
  6. "I Don't Know" (Mabon)
  7. "Soul Man" (Hayes, Porter)
  8. "Who's Making Love?" (Banks, Crutcher, Davis, Jackson)
  9. "Do You Love Me" (Gordy) / "Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me)" (Brown, Ellis)
  10. "Guilty" (Newman)
  11. "Riot in Cell Block #9" (Leiber, Stoller)
  12. "From the Bottom" (Williamson)
  13. "Going Back to Miami" (Cochran)
  14. "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" (Wexler, Berns, Burke)
  15. "Expressway to Your Heart" (Gamble & Huff)
  16. "Sweet Home Chicago" (Johnson)
  17. "Closing: I Can't Turn You Loose" (Redding)
  18. "Shake a Tail Feather" (Hayes, Williams, Rice)
  19. "Think" (White, Franklin)
  20. "Gimme Some Lovin'" (S. Winwood, M. Winwood, Davis)

All twenty tracks had previously been released as part of other albums:[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Liner notes for the CD
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